332 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



Have heard of but one lot of hogs afflicted with disease. They have somethiug like 

 diarrhea or flux. Some fifteen or twenty of them died. Other animals are healthy. 



Schuyler. — Cattle have suffered with black-leg and hogs with cholera. Sheep are 

 becoming badly affected with scab. Fowls have been afflicted with the usual disease — 

 cholera. 



Shelby. — Farm animals of all kinds are healthy. Fowls die every year of cholera 

 and roupe. 



Stoddard. — The only loss I have to record among farm animals in this county has 

 been among hogs. The value of the losses have been small. Will not exceed $-2,000. 



Taney. — I can hear of no disease except black-leg among cattle. This has been 

 quite prevalent, and is generally fatal. The value of the losses from this disease will 

 perhaps reach $4,000. 



Verno». — No fatal epidemic disease has visited any class of our farm animals during 

 the year. 



Warren. — The health of all classes of farm animals here was never better than now. 



Wayne. — The value of the losses from disease among our farm aniraals during the past 

 year is estimated as follows: Horses, $7,500 ; cattle, $2,750; hogs, $2,500 ; sheep, $1,300; 

 and fowls, $225. 



NEBRASKA. 



Adams. — So far as I have been able to ascertain, no disease of any consequence has 

 prevailed among our farm animals during the past year. 



Antelope. — So insignificant have been the losses by disease among domestic animals 

 that I do not deem them worthy of report. 



Boone. — Horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep are remarkably healthy — no disease of any 

 kind. A horse dies occasionally of old age or accident. 



Ca8s. — Cattle and hogs are the only classes of animals that have suffered with dis- 

 ease in this county. Cattle have been afflicted with black-leg and hogs with cholera 

 and lung diseases. 



Cedar. — The losses among farm animals in this county by disease the present year 

 have been very light. 



Dawson. — But few farm animals have been lost by disease in this county during the 

 year. 



Douglas. — Five or six horses died during the year of pink-eye. In the fall some 

 cattle died of indigestion, caused by eating corn husks. We have lost some hogs and 

 fowls by cholera, and some sheep have died of scab. 



Furnas. — Animals of all kinds have generally been healthy the jiast year. A few 

 horses have died from change of climate, overwork, «&c. In some localities cattle 

 have died of the disease known as black-leg. I have no losses to report among hogs, 

 sheep, or fowls. 



Hall. — Black-leg has lately made its appearance among some herds of cattle which 

 have been allowed to feed without restraint upon newly husked corn fields. I be- 

 lieve this to be the principal cause of the disease. No other disease has appeared 

 among fiirm stock. Chicken cholera prevails in some localities. 



Hamilton. — I have heard of but very few cases of disease among farm animals in this 

 county. There has been considerable loss by chicken cholera. Some farmers have 

 lost all — others few. 



Johnson. — All farm animals are iu good health and condition. No epidemic has oc- 

 curred during the year. 



Kearney. — I have no losses to report from diseases among domestic animals for the 

 past year. 



Lancaster. — I can obtain no reliable data as to losses among farm animals iu this 

 county for the current year. 



Merrick. — Some horses have been lost during the year by diseases incident to them. 



